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HijackThis Log - Not sure of what type of infection helper.dll appears in Common Folder at startup and slow browser/cpu

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Posted 03 July 2009 - 02:04 PM

Here is the log file from HijackThis. I'm sorry I don't have a lot of details other than upon startup the Common Folder opens and the helper.dll file is present. My browser seems to be "hanging" quite a bit as well.

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Posted 09 July 2009 - 09:47 AM

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